pulseaudio was marked MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE 5 years ago[1]. It looks fine to parallel build now. jsli@4cbsd:/usr/ports/audio/pulseaudio # sysctl kern.smp.cpus hw.model kern.smp.cpus: 4 hw.model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3450 CPU @ 3.10GHz jsli@4cbsd:/usr/ports/audio/pulseaudio # time make -DBATCH MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=64 .. .. ====> Compressing man pages (compress-man) 93.880u 83.810s 1:24.92 209.2% 15228+249k 22+382io 0pf+0w jsli@4cbsd:/usr/ports/audio/pulseaudio # [1] http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=298620+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2009/cvs-ports/20090419.cvs-ports Fix: patch attached to enable parallel build. Patch attached with submission follows:
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->gnome Over to maintainer (via the GNATS Auto Assign Tool)
The MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE flag was removed in the 5.0 update.